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Overseas spouse and dependents of protected person and convention refugee timeline - Share here

Maria04

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Oct 4, 2021
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Hello my friends
I just wanted to share my timeline and see how it goes for other fellows
#Main applicant:
-Submitted October 2023
-Received biometric instructions and additional documents in Feb 2024
-Received eligibility and pre arrival letter in December 2024
#Overseas depend:
-Received biometric and additional documents in Feb 2025
-Pre arrival letter in March 2025

Could you please share your recent news and timeline and could please let me know how much more do we have to wait? It started getting frustrating

Also the overseas dependent has Visitor visa, is there any way she could apply for work permit in Canada?
wondering the same thing as my dependant got approval for a vistor visa
 
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Christtop

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Apr 24, 2024
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June 2024, and it was very fast it was approved within 2 weeks
Oh mine! This is goodnews!

I received PR card this January and immediately applied Visiting visa for my dependant who is overseas. Application currently in background processing. Trusting to receive favorable results like you guys.

For the working visa, I will advice you keep applying, and explaining on the SOP why your dependant needs to work while waiting for PR to be processed. Success!
 
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Christtop

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Apr 24, 2024
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Oh mine! This is goodnews!

I received PR card this January and immediately applied Visiting visa for my dependant who is overseas. Application currently in background processing. Trusting to receive favorable results like you guys.

For the working visa, I will advice you keep applying, and explaining on the SOP why your dependant needs to work while waiting for PR to be processed. Success!
Please, can you give a hint on what you think you did differently for the Visiting visa to sail through? I will appreciate it.
 

Maria04

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Oct 4, 2021
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Oh mine! This is goodnews!

I received PR card this January and immediately applied Visiting visa for my dependant who is overseas. Application currently in background processing. Trusting to receive favorable results like you guys.

For the working visa, I will advice you keep applying, and explaining on the SOP why your dependant needs to work while waiting for PR to be processed. Success!
I hope you can get it soon , btw my dependant hasnt come to Canada yet, so we don´t know what to expect once he arrives with the visa
 

Ben11

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Mar 16, 2024
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I hope you can get it soon , btw my dependant hasnt come to Canada yet, so we don´t know what to expect once he arrives with the visa
Good luck hoping your depandants overseas get visa approval please when you got it let me know so may I do like you.
But I'm still waiting for my PR

All the best and let me know when you got the visa and when I will got PR I will apply for my depandants overseas as well thanks
 

Maria04

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Oct 4, 2021
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Good luck hoping your depandants overseas get visa approval please when you got it let me know so may I do like you.
But I'm still waiting for my PR

All the best and let me know when you got the visa and when I will got PR I will apply for my depandants overseas as well thanks
Sorry, he got the visa since June 2024, but he hasnt come yet, both of us are waiting fo the PR too.
 

Maria04

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Oct 4, 2021
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Wow that's great can you advise me how I submitted my visitor visa application through a representative or by myself.
Thanks.
You need to fill out a Use of a Representative form if you want to apply for your dependent's visa on their behalf. After that, the process is very straightforward: pay the fees, attach any proof of funds, provide details if your dependents have a job, and be completely transparent that they have a PR application in progress.
 

Ben11

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Mar 16, 2024
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You need to fill out a Use of a Representative form if you want to apply for your dependent's visa on their behalf. After that, the process is very straightforward: pay the fees, attach any proof of funds, provide details if your dependents have a job, and be completely transparent that they have a PR application in progress.
Great much appreciated will do that and I wish you all the best
 
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Christtop

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You need to fill out a Use of a Representative form if you want to apply for your dependent's visa on their behalf. After that, the process is very straightforward: pay the fees, attach any proof of funds, provide details if your dependents have a job, and be completely transparent that they have a PR application in progress.
You mean you where able to process a Visiting visa for your spouse while waiting for PR? And it was processed in your profile? I thought this was impossible, and that the application must be in her profile?
 

Ben11

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Mar 16, 2024
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You mean you where able to process a Visiting visa for your spouse while waiting for PR? And it was processed in your profile? I thought this was impossible, and that the application must be in her profile?
Yes that's right I want my wife and my kids apply for a visitor visa while they waiting for their pr finalization they're overseas waiting for their pr approval so they can wait in canada but I don't know if that will be an easy visitor visa approval
 
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canuck78

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Yes that's right I want my wife and my kids apply for a visitor visa while they waiting for their pr finalization they're overseas waiting for their pr approval so they can wait in canada but I don't know if that will be an easy visitor visa approval
It typically isn’t easy or possible so this may have been an unusual situation. Also much harder to get a TRV vs a year ago in general.
 
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Ben11

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It typically isn’t easy or possible so this may have been an unusual situation. Also much harder to get a TRV vs a year ago in general.
Yes that's right TRV is hard to get those days but will give a hope may will be successful and thanks for your help and I appreciate your time.